THE CHAOS IN CHINA.
BISHOP OF EXETER ON THE PRIMARY CAUSE.
DANGER OF RELINQUISHING CONFUCIANISM BEFORE CHRISTIANITY IS ACCEPTED.
A COUNTRY WITHOUT ANY STANDARD OF
RIGHT OR WRONG.
Lord-William Cecil, the Bishop of Exeter, writes to The Times of
"December 9th as follows:
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1927.
SHORN WOMEN,
SIR W. ORPEN, RA; SITS IN JUDGMENT.
-" IT: WON'T LAST.""
NEW YORK WAR" ON
BANDITS.
CRIME DOESN'T PAY."
WARNING THAT IS BEING FULFILLED
"It doesn't pay.---You win."
can't
"! After six years' experianca of it, in which to arrive at a mature judgment, my conclusion is that wonten noght never to have cut their hair! Their heads are too badly shaped, and their faces are
This warning printed on cards too large. Bobbing was bad bearing graphic pictures of gunmen enough, shingling is worse and as and bank-robbers, has been broad- Another result of teaching the for an Eton crop, I feel quite un-cast for more than two years by the Chinese the knowledge of the West-comfortable when I have to sit next New York Police Department, in fern world through American history to it in a theatre."
Thus Sir Williams Orpen, in his campaign to discourage crime.
New York laughed at this cam- Sir-Fifteen years ago it seemed has been a great emphasis on Kensington studio, expressed him- quite obvious to many with whom I nationality. One quite understands self to a press representative, who paign, for it seemed that criminals Was associated that what has hap-bow the Americans need some con asked whether the short-haired were getting away with it," but pened wont happen, and we did our very best to arouse cur fellow-ception to bring unity to the hetero-women is here to stay, and what how it is beginning to have a whole-
the police.
The warning was first broadcast countrymen to the imminent danger geneous populations which for her effect upon the soul of the some respect for the activities of from introduction of Western civil-kaeir country, but the same doctring artist.
when Gerald Chapman and "Dutch' ization, without satavient care being transferred to China produces this
hatred of the European, especiallycrop
of their taken to build up a moral code to
careers as bandita, take the pince" of the Confucian
Anderson were at the height
Gerald Chapman lies in ethics which seemed to be quite necessarily destroyed. In 1919
unmarked grave in. Connecticut, the wrote after a visit to China :--
victim of the hangman's noosa "Dutch
Anderson was buried in
There is a great danger that the revolution may follow the French
When I have to paint & Bir William took off of Englishmen. For in the gear his glasses and put them safely drama of the American Revolution away before exclaiming freely on Ithe English are the tyrants that this point. Having done sond oppress young races struggling to clearly established the fact in the process that no shingled beauty be free. So American history avers.
1 should not have presumed to ask could hope to be a successful example, that the wild optimism the hospitality of your columns. for modern Circe, or Helen of Troy, he it, Do Of course, it won't last," which is evident in the extreme this letter unless I felt that someone proceeded to deliver judgment.
declared. "It can't. It isn't beauti- retarmers way inuuce them to ought to raise a protest against the destroy all things that make for dissemination of false views of ful and exciting enough. The modern stabunty, and so confusion and dis European history which act as a
Oriental countries.
For shingled woman-at any rate in the indigestible mass-will never content will acsonte the land til poison to
Beither is revolution a neceSEATY revolution will lose itself in blood.
antecedent to prosperity nor is the aspire a spein Art, comparable to The danger to which always cabing attention was that or modern doctrine of nationality the the Ancient Greek type; for in- relinquishing the deals which de. best ideal. When nationality exist. stance--"
"Don't you suppose," Sir William poned on the teasing of Confuciused in the primitive world it pro-was asked, that there was much before the ideas of Christianity duced perpetual tribal war. When
it was condemned alike by Chris-the same eatery when men first were accepted, so that there was a probability, which has become tianity and by Roman political started sharing and cutting their reality, that the country would be sagacity there was peace and an hair short!”
"Had America
Yes: I'm sure there was. But,
*it without any standard of right or 45 of construction.
in her period of formation believed he smiled mischievously,
wasn't nearly as reasonable. Men wrong, and that civilization would
in the modern doctrine of nation have better shaped heads than ality, she never could have incorpor ated the Dutch and French elements women! of her greatness, and America would have remained a collection of war- ring States.
We Wore
be regarded as a thing purely
material.
7
This false and dangerous view was
-Shingling Reveals Defects, "Don't look at me like that it's taught to the students who went to
perfectly true. Ninety-nine women Japan and America for their educa tion, and England, too, must: accept
Why should this false doctrine, out of a hundred have straight backs to their heads-German ber share in this disastrous Atsitque
dangerous to Europe at the present of mind. English purses were wide time, be exported to countries in a
backs. And their faces are too big ly opened to those who asked money
of transition like China for the size of their heads, too. for a practical and technical educs- tion, but Engish minds could not Christianity would never have re. That's why their hair is so import- The width of understand the necessity of teachingsuired the dextraction of the Imant. The Greek knot at the back students ideals; such were to grow perial Rule of China. It would have balances the face. by themselves or not to grow at all. air required its amelioration hair at the side makes it seem We pleaded that what was admir China might have remained in pro-smaller and daintier. Hair pulled
state
حد
Michigan, the victim of a police-
man's bullet:
INDIAN CONSTABLE'S *** KNOWLEDGE." OF CHINESE,
Three Chinese, charged with caur- ing obstruction ware discharged by Mr. R. E. Liadsell yesterday morn ing at the Central Magistracy on the ground of insufficient evidence. The Sikh constable prosecuting, said that he did not possess a Chinese certificate, but he had a Bir knowledge of Chinese.
'In the course of his evidence, the witness said that one of the de- fendants had told him that he had to wait for his master's in- structions before moving goods from the foot-path.
Aaked to repeat the conversation in Chinese, witness admitted his inability to do so.
It strikes me," retorted Mr. know is 'man man and you come Lindsell," that all the Chinese you
into Court and tall this story about what you thought the man said.”. (Laughter.)
The three defendants were dis- charged.
MYSTIC SECT'S SECRET CONCLAVES.
Richard Reese Whittemore i buried in Baltimore, another victim of the hangman, and most of the members of his gang are serving SERVICES THAT LAST FOR long sentences in Sing-Sing.
91 HOURS.
GOD.
Emaciated Fugitive Osaght. "Bum" Rodgers, who made DENMARK HILL'S “HIM-HER "* dramatic escapes from gaols and Bwore vengeance for the hanging of Chapman, is gain imprisoned, tenement house, an emaciated and having been captured in a squalid worn fugitive from justice.
Nine members of the "Cowboy" Tessler gang, who introduced the silencer into banditry in New York, are serving the best part of their lives in prison
The Lamond brothers, college youths who wors ine clothes and shot down bank messengers in cold blood, were buried, after a death
in the electric chair.
Thomas "Red" Moran, the boy bandit, who shot down two police- men because they wouldn't stick 'em up," at his first command of Hands up," will probably go to the electric chair.
Little by little it would seem that
minds of "the" penetrating the criminal classes, i
"
There is a strange sect at Den setret conclave at 3 o'clock in the morning for members of the "Inner mark Hill S.E.. which neets in
Temple," and continues its worship with intervals until midnight.
This body is known as the Mystical Church of the Comforter, and its founder and minister is a woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Eagle Skinner.
Mra.
Elizabeth Mary Eagle Skinner has known many stages of spiritual experience.
Brought up in the Anglican
Roman Catholic Church. Disastis- faith, she eventually joined the äed with all existent churches, she then decided to found a church of her own, where she could adminis ter sacramenta, officiate at mar
absolutions, and, incidentally, wear picturesque robes.
be preserved, for there was very deals of nationality and revolution effect. How often l've told women able in Confucian civilization should sperity and happy bid not theso down on the forehead has the same the slogan "You Can't Win "riages, hear confessions, and give i
heen disseminated by the ineptness that when they want me to paint Cut off her hair, or take it much, and that therefore the Chi
of Western teaching rendered effer them. nese should be taught still to rever
away from her face and the aver- ence the wildom of Confucius blend. tive by Western wealth.
age moderately good-looking woman ed with a Christian faith, much ar Greek philosophy was incorporated
is a sight. with, Christianity in the first cen turies of our ers.
BRITISH COAL STRIKE'S
BLOW AT TRADE.":
EXPORTS DOWN OVER 100 MILLIONS IN 21-MONTHS.
The Mystical Church of the Com forter is a large room, which is part of Denmarkhill Station.
We' pleaded primarily for Chris tianity in China, but we recognized
Men's heads are much large in that this could only be accomplish. ed after several generations of proportion to their faces and the The untoward results of this native Christians had been at work occipital point is more prozcun- As an interim policy we asked that
sed
Sir William selected from 1 material policy have been angment the Confucian ethics "should have ed" by the preminence which the heen reverenced and preserved, group of photographs which the re- American institutions have given to especially as they seemed to us to presentative had brought for him INCREASED FOREIGN DEMAND /religion is "to reveal not only the their own Revolution. I remember be congenial rather than uncon- to see one of a woman noted for roading the school books in a Chi- congenial to the, Christian Faith. her beauty. Shingling, he declar-
kad revealed its defects.
should not only be preserved but treated with veneration. So Japan P
of British goods of 2113,016.
The slight fall in exports would be accounted for by the fact that in November there was one working day less than in October...
Imports were of the value of £113,293,397, & decrease of £1,301,640 compared with November, 1025, and exports £53,003,647, which was £7,913,710 less than a year ago.
She is tall and handsome, and with a gold girdle, from which was suspended a cross. Her blue velvet hat was rather like a mitre. It was decorated with a large gold.
ed tassels hanging down rather like star, and there were two embraider-
earrings.
The prayer-book contains read-. ings from the Koran, from Buddha, from the Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Egyptian, and Hindu sacred books.” One of the objects of the
Fatherhood but the Motherhood of FOR BRITISH MOTOR CARS. "God," and the references to "Him-Her" would jar upon the British Board of Trade returns minds of the orthodox nese college 18 years ago. There Japan was in a similar state ofed,, huren do go on cutting off for November shows a rise in im- The woman who has secured a was an emphasis on the American transition guided by wiser states- Revolution which would have been men. They welcomed Western civil. their hair, soon they'll stop grow-ports during that month of over following for her faith-there were humorous had it not been so tragic.ization and gare every opportunityWhen I say soon, I mean in about October, and a drop in the exports the congregation has a magnetic seven men and about 25 women in ing any to cut," he continued. two million pounds compared with The sketch of history passed so to the missionary but they insisted
It's the
personality. rapidly through the history of Eng that the peculiar culture of Japaz another 100 years or so. land that to the student Julius as it was enshrined in Shintoism, law of Natare.. Cesar, and William the Norman
Middle Age And Egyptian must have seamed almost contem
Precedents. porary. There was no pauso till we got to the reign of George II, a heap of ruins.
is a World Fower, while China is In the Middle Ages there was quite bobbing cult. But they though why the poor Chinese stud- ent should have been troubled with It is no use crying over spilt milk, at least had the sense to cut it off at the neck and shoulder line. So the question at all seemed difficult but there is no reason why one to answer. And then there was a should spill it again. The same pro- their faces weren't left quite -
For the first eleven months of marked emphasis. As one read the ceas that has brought chaos into framed,
Then the Egyptians went in school book one felt the student China is being continued in other would think that then a new era had parts of the world. I would plead for bobbed hair, too. And modern 1928 imports totalled £1,120,573,049, dawned on the whole world with for clear thinking on the subject figures as well. I don't object to the breaking away of the American Teach the Christian ethic depend the modern figure when it isn't car-pared with the first eleven months Colonies from England And song on the Christian Faith as zcoa ried to extremes. It was a much- 1995, and exports for the same
of £105.132,639 on 1993. doubt, as the students realized the as possible but do not, through needed move in the right direc period were £60,145,110, & decrease
impatience, destroy the valuable, tian great wealth of America, they have ethical systems which, though in fat too fat-the result of wearing were getting
Striking Coal Figures. been constantly tempted to follow
The increases in exports in ferior to the Christian system, at bustles and crinolines and stuffy November were few in number, the the steps that have led to that
the countries wealth, and the first of those steps least preserve
in padded bodices.
"They thought curves, and they chief of them being woollen and was, as their school books insisted, which they are accepted from con- a revolution. And therefore they fusion-I am etc.,"
got them! You women think short Worsted yarns 230,160, apparel £441,481, wool-raw and waste- began with a revolution.
hair, and you'll get it!'
There was consolation in the articles £220,008,. During the month ed the Inner Temple of the
Of course, 3,407,021 tons of coal, of the value faith are addressed as Father painter's last remark. the rare women who have beauti. of £,037,254, were imported Inor Mother;" the less experienced fully shaped heads look wonderful November Britain exported 5,111 are Brothers and Sisters shingled. They ought to cut their tuns of coal, of the value of £5,704; in November, 1825, British exports hair off. Yes, by all means!
of coal were 4,337,768 tons, of the value of £3,986,720. :),
SOCIALISM IN VIENNA WORKING FAIRLY WELLA
Mr. C. E. Keene, of Leicester, in the course of lecture pon Bocialism in Democratic Vients,” gave much interesting information |
W. Exox.
PAYMENT BY INCHES. HOW MODERN ARMY RECRUITERS ARE REWARDED.
"The recruiting campaign upon the Government and people present being carried on is not on
of this ancient European city.
The city, he said possessed its own gas, electricity, water, cemo tery, trams, slaughter-houses, and opera house (the firms in world), and it slin owned the local railway and crematorium. Its em
Women
at RUSSIA'S BROKEN BELLS,
SOVIET DESPOILING THE CHURCHES.
" a grand scale 1 Prees represents- Live way informed at the War Ofict
VOLTS old.
The Family Party. "Mother," as she is known, also a decrease of £59,018,083 as com wore a blue veil, a star and a cross; a bangle, several rings, and flesh pink ilk stockings.
The assistant clergy" were two women in surplices and veils, and
young man in a surplice.
As founder of the church Mrs. the Messenger," .bat addressed AS Skinner is referred to as "Mother." Those who have reach-
Their creed is: "I believe in the Father and Mother, Maker, of Heaven and Earth," and this in- sistence on, the Divine Being as For the eleven months of 1998, our woman as well as man is an in- export of coal was 18,987,80 tons,tegral part of the faith.
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Bugs, Ficas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,
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all killed by
of the value of £17,259,588, as in- Mrs. Skinner began the service by pared with 46,185.067 tons, of the 'barning more incense, and the air ralue of £40,201,851 for this period became almost unbearably stifling. in 1925...
She then read a passage from the and is the normal process of
The value of the exports of Bock of Revelation, and a ming- We have no use for Archbishops motor cars, which in October reaching of prayers and hymns led to making up to strength. We do, however, expect an extra number the
ter or any other prieste, so we are ed a total of £777,797, in November the sermon, which Mr Skinner of recruits as a result of the efforts pulling down the churches and sell-went up to £1,039,804, bringing the preached sitting in a comfortable An interesting description of life of men on leave."
are wanted
figure for the past eleven months chair near the altar. She pointed in the Lilliputian State of Andorra ing the bells." About 10,000 men are
and, This remark was made by sailors to £8,180,805.
out that "a sin is not a sin until was recently given by the Rev. E, A. ployees numbered 70,000. The trad aided by the attraction of their on board the Soviet steamer
you know it is a kin." :
Agnew, F.H.G.8, to Royal Scottish ing concerns were not run for
Geographical Society. profit, but for service. Municipal full-dress uniforms which in many Proletari, to the men engaged on
Andorra, said Mr. a wharf near London Bridge, when
Agnew, WIE Z employees, male or female, were fases they are to be permitted to wear-soldiers will be able con-
MORALS OF COLOGNE. paid at the same rate of wages for
nary members of the church, but European State without, telephones; siderably to augment their incomes. they expressed surprise at the Bimilar work, and one saw worhan
Going on leave for Christmas, they nature of the vessel's cargo.
The largest hall in the city of those who desire to reach out to postage stamps, local coinage, poor-
house, or Bencath some thousands of eases
steam chimney, and whose employed as strest sweepers, house are being invited to secure recruits of apples, there were in the hold Cologne was filled at a recent meet all that is highest and best must six miles of road had been trans-
markets, all appeared to be well fed, but Their rewards are mentored of the ship, which had come from ing called by the herd of the abstain from intoxicants and drugs formed from a mule track in she on the whole very poorly dressed. Re-ruits for line regiments and Leningrad, zhou; 200 tons of broken, Roman Catholic Church to protests dies, plante, upon past decade. It was a little. State
fest against the lowering standard" fruits, auts,
in the beart of the Pyrenees, with There are members of the Inner about 6,000 inhabitants, and about Pay, except in some cases, was very other corps not especially disting broken up, church bells. bad, 208, being considered a good guished are paid for at the rale
"One of them had not been of private life and its official con
Temple, and they meet when pos half the area of Midlothian, though weekly wage,
encouragement. Roman Catholic. Vicar Kastert sible for a secret conclave, which its narrow valleys and steep moun. of 2s. 6d. a man. Should a soldier sabed," said one of the wharf donation and All citions over 20 years of age be lucky enougir to secure a "all-gial to press representati weighed denounced modern art women's begins at 3 o'clock in the morning, tains meant a very small ares of panessed a Fote, but 20, SBYE-WAS-
had only been chipped. It he will earn b ed tradesman candidates
gather The minimum oigal office. Of the and a similar fes goes to the Endertons pounds, Destiny estess, the standard of the Cologne for spiritual instruction, continues arable land. Indeed, there were
Bft. 9io. guardeman. of a
hells there were beautifully cast stage, the toleration of certain till e in the evening, for
plays, etc., exhibited by the civil ing up, and transmuting the evil 120 seats on the Council, 29 were. Should he be so fortunate and figures.
Many dates, too, were inscrib authorities, and the appalling num in man," and ends with benediction held by Social democrats. The city this is, in very truth, the height of also had its Parliament of tre ambition as to bag a guardsed on them, the oldest I saw going ber of divorces granted annually at midnight.
Mr Skinner hopes to make this 1,600 pieces, and it took us fifteen Hour," he declared. kind of senato elected by ballot award will be 71.
hours to unload them. In weight A resolution was adopted de-ready a centre in Cardiff" she said with so many from the lower
they varied from two to four fons. msuding that the theatres belong to a prossman. House It did not comprise dukes and similar titles, which were all studies were free, and the poorer to take, and we had to lower them clean and edifying plays; and that They were too big for the cranes ing to the city should only produce
Mr. Skinner lived up to her name of "Mother" by kissing washed outational system, classes children were provided, with free ever the side into lighters--one the authorities, should keen and per affectionately several members of comprised about 95, and not moré i meala, Vocational training of one taking 110 tons and the other00 watch over all programmes and pere: her congregation—and by giving to peace, the only jail having served ai ini KEN KANZANIA VON KLIM AGA than 35, children. Booker for the hour each afternoon was given to tons which took them up (Continued at fool of next calum children over eleven yearK..
the
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SPAD PILLS FOR THE
Houses, the second House being man Bft. 11in. in height, or over, his back 110 years. "In all' there were în Cologne. Venus gove world religion. We have a contnéil chamber, a small chapel, a la LEGLERGS LIVER A KIDNEYS: {}
the formances in cabarets and music
halls.
all her caressing smile.
in the State. The Parliament only about 200 acres of level land House, a three-storey building, had, downstairs, a stable for the M.P.'s mules; on the first floor was the OVER LA CENTURY HOMITATION great kitchen, whore the fire-place
Dens For Me A could roast an ox, and an austero Zuerading Camera, eg n peng dining room, where the members Da Le Case Mart, Do. Haramook te ik.W. were fed at the expense of the State. Andorra, in the midst of a DE LE GLERO'S VIA FERIE! industrial century was an ouds of Ba LE CLERG'S RES
hen-house for years.
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